{"id":51900,"date":"2021-02-07T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=51900"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:16:17","slug":"sla-journal-cover-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/sla-journal-cover-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"SLA Journal Cover Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51891\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51891\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"SLA Journal Cover front\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm-768x1049.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210202_132418-sm.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SLA Journal Cover front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am, once again, president of my local library association. Not what I wanted to do again, but circumstances required that I step up. One thing that I did was want people to read my newsletter\/&#8221;Message from the President&#8221;. As an incentive, I offered a fabulous prize, which was a journal cover for a composition book.<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t know if a woman or a man would win, I chose neutrals &#8211; mostly blacks and greys, but one piece had that great orange triangle, so I used it as a centerpiece. I wasn&#8217;t excited about making something with those colors, but I am pleased with the way it came out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51892\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210204_180433_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51892\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210204_180433_wm-sm-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"SLA Journal Cover -open\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210204_180433_wm-sm-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210204_180433_wm-sm-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210204_180433_wm-sm.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SLA Journal Cover -open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I picked the winner and now just have to get it to that person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, once again, president of my local library association. Not what I wanted to do again, but circumstances required that I step up. One thing that I did was want people to read my newsletter\/&#8221;Message from the President&#8221;. As an incentive, I offered a fabulous prize, which was a journal cover for a composition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/sla-journal-cover-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SLA Journal Cover Gift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[316,98,561],"class_list":["post-51900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-gifts","tag-journal-cover","tag-small-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51901,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51900\/revisions\/51901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}